Word: catchers
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...could remember. And it was - at least until the following evening. Again, the Yankees would sleepwalk for eight innings as Arizona staked another unheralded hurler, Miguel Batista, to a two - run lead. Again, Brenly brought in Kim to finish the issue. And once again, the Yankees finished Kim. Catcher Jorge Posada doubled to left. Two pitches later, third baseman Scott Brosius connected with a slider that didn?t slide. He knew immediately that it was gone, raising his arms in triumph. As delirious Yankee fans danced in the stands, several Arizona players ran to the mound to comfort the crushed...
...also says something about the vast world of baseball rules. The batter never swung at the pitch, and the ball never made it to the catcher. It wasn’t a wild pitch or a passed ball because, well, the pitch wasn’t really wild and the ball never really passed. So what kind of call should the umpire make in this situation...
...during spring training and picking his or her jaw off the ground after seeing this play. It was a preseason game between the Diamondbacks and the Giants. Randy Johnson was on the mound for the ’Backs, and he threw a fastball that never made it to catcher Rod Barajas’ mitt. Instead, it collided with a dove that just happened to be swooping down past home plate at the time. There was an explosion of feathers and what was left of the bird landed somewhere behind home plate...
...Freshman catcher Cecily Gordon drove in sophomore infielder Breanne Cooley for the 2-1 victory...
...birth not only to huge cargo vessels but also to the Solidarity movement that swept the country toward democracy in the 1980s. Now the yards are being transformed by a new revolution--one rooted not in politics but in business. And their most recent product is quite an eye-catcher...